Orthodoof Jude Thaddeus ☦

@Pilgrim2027 @banterwithb Any sufficiently advanced piety is indistinguishable from insanity. Apologies to Arthur C. Clark

This might come as a shock to Christians, but it is a sin to tell your spouse "no" when they ask for sex, barring a severe circumstance. How many marriages do you think have been destroyed because we pretend this isn't a sin?

@6079SmithWinsom I worked in missles for 15 years. I knew a fews trans during that time. The company seemed to prefer them to more normal people.

Hurt people hurt people.

Your vegan oat-and-almond latte killed more bees, drained more groundwater, and required more long-haul lorry mileage than a year's worth of dairy milk from a Welsh cow that drank rain. You will not have heard about this, because the carton has "plant-based" on it in nice green lettering. California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Every almond on every supermarket shelf, in every flapjack, blended into every oat-and-almond latte from London to Berlin, started life in one valley in central California. A gallon of almond milk requires around 162 gallons of irrigation water. A gallon of British dairy milk uses around 8 gallons of tap water, and the rest comes from rain falling on grass that grows nothing else of nutritional value to humans. The cow drinks the rain. The almond tree drinks the aquifer. California almonds consume approximately 1.1 trillion gallons of irrigation water annually. Roughly the same volume of water used by Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. Around two-thirds of the crop is then exported to Asia and Europe. A state in repeated drought emergencies, where over a million residents lack reliable access to clean drinking water, is locking its aquifer inside almonds and shipping it overseas in containers. Almond trees bloom for three weeks in February. To pollinate 1.5 million acres of orchards in that window, California requires roughly two-thirds of every commercial honeybee in the United States to be physically transported into the Central Valley on flatbed lorries. The largest managed pollination event on earth, every year, conducted on the back of a truck. The bees are released into groves sprayed with neonicotinoids, which scramble their navigation. Fungicides, which weaken their immune systems. Herbicides, which have already killed the wildflowers they would normally forage on between blooms. Between June 2024 and March 2025, US commercial beekeepers lost 62% of their colonies. 1.6 million colonies dead. The largest honeybee die-off ever recorded in American history. The trigger period for the worst losses was the months immediately surrounding the almond bloom. Meanwhile, beneath the orchards, the ground itself is sinking. The US Geological Survey has documented parts of the San Joaquin Valley that have subsided by up to 30 feet since groundwater pumping began in the 1920s. The valley lost as much elevation between 2006 and 2022 as it lost in the previous forty-five years. The Friant-Kern Canal has lost 60% of its flow capacity because the land beneath it sank faster than the canal could be redesigned. Once those clay aquifer layers compact, the storage is permanently lost. The aquifer is being run as a one-way withdrawal, and California has been told this in formal hydrological reports for decades. The land was never meant to grow almonds. The bees were never meant to live on flatbed trucks. The aquifer was never meant to be a tap. But the carton says "plant-based" in nice green lettering. So, presumably, you are saving the planet. Carry on.

@JimJatras @Fragbaza @Profik1977 Ortholux

@Fragbaza @Profik1977 I'm glad there's a pig in the icon. They sometimes get less respect than they deserve. Plus, they're yummy. 😋

Saint Modestus, a 7th-century Patriarch of Jerusalem (c. 632–634), is revered as the heavenly protector and healer of animals. Born to Christian parents in Cappadocia, he lived as a hermit on Mount Sinai before serving as the abbot of the Monastery of Saint Theodosius the Great in Palestine. Tradition holds that Saint Modestus possessed a God-given grace to heal livestock and pets from sickness and demonic harm. On his feast day, celebrated on December 16, the faithful often seek his intercession to bless their homes, animals, and water. May we dedicate our own animals to God and seek the guidance of St. Modestus to keep them safe from all illness and affliction.

@Fearless__Truth At St Anthony the Great in Loma Linda you had to go early to OTHROS to get a seat. (I’m ROCOR so spare me your pews debate)

Dont let anyone tell you the church’s are dying. 10 minutes before liturgy btw

@BrotherAugusti2 Did Pascha 2021 there during Covid. It was awesome.

St. Andrew’s in Riverside, California, is also the only Church I’ve been to with an icon of King St. Alfred of Wessex. It’s on one of those interior columns.

@DavidCarlson @JohnDoyle You should probably be banned for have any views on Israel, pro or con

Free speech for the American citizenry does not mean free speech for people seeking to become American citizens. Following the assassination of President McKinley, the Immigration Act of 1903 barred anarchists from entry. The Immigration Act of 1918 expanded this by authorizing the deportation of alien anarchists already in the country. Skip to the 1950s, the Internal Security Act of 1950 barred members of communist or "totalitarian" organizations from admission into the country. The Nationality Act of 1952 further codified that law for a broader ideological exclusion. This rich history of keeping troublemakers out was destroyed in the 1990s, in America's second era of good feelings. Our reaction to 9/11 should've been focused on undoing these harmful policies. But now it's baked into our civic religion, and it's a lie.

@BarackObama > Democrat Assassin: ‘I want to kill Trump’ > Democrats assassin tries to kill Trump with a gun on camera > Leaves note describing in great detail how much they want Trump dead > Posts on social media about killing Trump > Obama: No motive

@SamaHoole @cillidh Do you have any recommendations of where I could order such an article of clothing?

You could shear a sheep in May. It takes ten minutes. She is grateful. The fleece keeps you warm for forty years. When you're done, you bury it, and it becomes soil within three years. Or, for ethical reasons, you could choose one of the alternatives. Cotton. Requires 10,000 litres of water per jumper. The Aral Sea is now mostly dust because the Soviet Union diverted its rivers to grow it. But the jumper is "natural." Polyester. Crude oil, extruded into thread. Sheds 700,000 microplastic fibres per wash. Lasts in landfill until approximately the year 2226. But "vegan." Acrylic. Petrochemical, manufactured using a solvent the EU has classified as a reproductive hazard. Marketed as "cruelty-free." The cruelty is in the supply chain. Bamboo. The plant is innocent. The fabric is bamboo viscose, dissolved in carbon disulphide in a Chinese chemical plant whose workers have elevated rates of psychosis. But it has a leaf on the label. Hemp. Genuinely fine. Most of what is sold as hemp is a polyester blend, sold at four times the price. Recycled polyester. Still sheds microplastics. Still ends up in landfill. Made from plastic bottles that could have been recycled into more bottles. The fashion industry has been quiet about this. Vegan leather. Plastic. Reliably. Always. Lab-grown fibres. Genetically modified bacteria fed on glucose syrup in a steel tank, in a factory powered by natural gas, packaged in plastic, shipped from California. Funded by venture capital. Not yet profitable. Or you could shear the sheep in May. She'd appreciate it. The jumper would last forty years. The grass would grow back the same. But of course, the sheep is the unethical option.

@James_Theuer @NeaOpsis @paisiosdavis @KingMic92357513 @Fr_RonPG @Maximus733778 Who two?

@NeaOpsis @OrthoDoof @paisiosdavis @KingMic92357513 @Fr_RonPG @Maximus733778 You two are modernist clowns

How many people do you know like this? How many? Most people are thankful, or alternatively, never feeling they’re good enough, or both. This guy’s got some kind of imagination!

@Construct175162 @JacksonWheat1 Try getting a job in academia if you openly reject evolution. It’s not a conspiracy in a dark room somewhere but you yourself support it openly. It’s just common sense to you I’m sure.

@JacksonWheat1 I don't know if lots of scientists disagree with evolution but are afraid to say so out of fear of losing their jobs. But anyone who believes it must be a conspiracy theory that academia functions like this has only proved that they know nothing about how academia functions.

There is no way to describe the belief that “lots of scientists disagree with evolution but they’re afraid of losing their jobs” as anything other than a conspiracy theory. 🤷‍♂️

@mmmike917 @JacksonWheat1 It’s funny. I read the 25th anniversary edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Kuhn. The idiot that wrote the forward went to great lengths to assure everyone that there wouldn’t be another one because we have it all figured it out now.

@JacksonWheat1 It just shows your fundamental misunderstanding of the history of science. Science has always operated under paradigms that suppress dissent and alternative explanations, until they eventually collapse under their own lack of explanatory power and a new paradigm moves in.

@HabemusMalleum Then everyone cheered.

Most believable r/exorthodox scenario.

@desertcynic I think the path to fame and money is such a long shot on the internet they are probably motivated by sharing the truth (as they see it.) Most are probably more surprised than you by their success. @PageauJonathan

Do we really believe that Constantinou, De Young, Damick, Pageau, et al -- are interested in sharing truth, rather than gaining fame and money? They're all using the faith, the sacred science of theology, to clout chase. Why else would they teach such obviously wrong nonsense?

@NeaOpsis @paisiosdavis @KingMic92357513 @TheOrthoEnsign @Fr_RonPG @Maximus733778 Mute is better. You don't see it but they don't know they are muted. Blocked is taken as a trophy.

@paisiosdavis @KingMic92357513 @TheOrthoEnsign @Fr_RonPG @Maximus733778 The block button on X is a tremendous blessing. 😊☦️

@designmom @potaufan You are not arguing in good faith. This is motte and bailey setup for sure.

@potaufan You’re unable or unwilling to answer my very basic question. Best of luck.

@designmom There has never been a successful human matriarchy that leads to a civilization. Even if what you claim is true, that matriarchy is the norm in nature, that just lends more weight to the idea that humanity can only transcend its biological limits when led by a patriarchy.

@garagedoordave1 @TaylorRMarshall These things don't exist in a vacuum. The one spirals the other. If you have been fed a bunch of Marxist Feminist Crap (FMC) your whole life, you would check out too. Racist for being white, toxic for being male. Why bother?

@TaylorRMarshall Wait a minute…. I’m no supporter of feminism at all..but have you seen your young peers? These men are lazy, uninspired, video game playing ,pot smoking, poorly groomed mongrels… many women have to work because males have relinquished their heritage as men

Women now hold the majority of W2 jobs in the USA. What this means: Crashing birth rates below 2.0 Kids in daycare More tax revenue Dissolution of nuclear families Immigration to make up for the lack of native births. Thanks Feminism.

A wool jumper, made in 1985, washed in cold water once a month, worn through three decades of British winters, would currently be sitting in someone's wardrobe doing fine. A polyester fleece, made in 2026, machine-washed weekly, will start to lose its structural integrity within three to five years, shed an estimated 700,000 microfibres per wash into the water system, and end its life in landfill where it will persist for approximately 200 years. The wool jumper: - Came from a sheep - Required grass and rain - Will biodegrade entirely within three years of being buried - Will keep you warm when wet - Will not melt if exposed to a flame - Will probably outlive you - Cost £80 in 1985, which is £230 today, and represents the entire jumper budget for the next forty years The polyester fleece: - Came from an oil refinery in Texas - Required hexane extraction, polymerisation and dyeing in three different factories on three different continents - Will not biodegrade in any human timeframe - Will get cold and clammy when wet - Will melt against your skin if exposed to a flame - Will be in landfill within five years - Cost £40 in 2026, which means you'll buy ten of them across the next forty years for a total of £400, and the planet will still be eating the residue in the year 2226 But yes. The sheep is the problem. The sheep, standing in a field in mid-Wales, growing a renewable fibre from grass and rain. The sheep is the problem.

@kylenabecker @elonmusk If you run out of racists and the grift requires racists, you gotta start making new racists.

The key takeaway I got from the grand jury indictment is that these could not have been "paid informants." Let's set aside that SPLC is not a law enforcement body, and therefore, has no business "infiltrating" groups (beyond paying individuals on the books to observe and record the activities of extremist groups). We are talking about $3 MILLION paid to existing top members of extremist organizations. These weren't "informants." They were organizers. They were leaders. They were of such a rank that you could simply pay for their information because they knew exactly how it all worked. Therefore, the idea that they were "infiltrating" these groups to get information on them or to stop their activities is an absurd lie.

Incredible return on investment! 💰💰💰